Trump and his campaign staff, including most notably Paul John Manafort, Jr., a veteran political consultant who recently joined the Trump campaign, are on the offensive, openly declaring that the system is “rigged” and corrupt following Cruz’s recent voterless victories in both Colorado and Wyoming, where it has been alleged delegates supporting Trump were systematically disfranchised and marginalized.

Trump supporters held a large rally in Colorado on April 15 to voice their frustration with the delegate process, which they argue is unfair,confusing, and outright rigged to prevent maverick candidates such as Trump from winning. Despitehis popularity, Trump did not win even a single delegate in the selection process in Colorado, where no vote was taken.

“They’re taking your vote away,” Trump told supporters at a recent rally in New York, where the leading GOP candidate has been campaigningthe past week. “They’re disfranchising people.”

Trump continued:

I say this to the RNC and I say it to the Republican Party: You’re going to have a big problem, folks, because the people don’t like what’s goingon. What we have going is a movement. Now, they’re trying to subvert the movement. Theycan’t do it with bodies. They can’t do it with people because they don’t have near the people that we have. So what they’re trying to do is subvertthe movement with crooked shenanigans. And we’re just not going to let it happen.

Trump and his supporters have consistentlyvoiced criticism directed against both the Cruz campaign and the GOP establishment, who theyargue are working behind the scenes to undermine Trump’s candidacy and steal delegates from the populist front-runner.

“We should have won a long time ago but wekeep losing where we’re winning,” Trump noted during the rally. “Today, winning votes doesn’t mean anything!”

In addition to dealing with the corrupt nature of the Republican nomination process, Trump is also facing hostile media coverage and large organizedprotests at his rallies and campaign events. Trump’s campaign and message havetriggered hysterical and unhinged reactions from leftists and anti-Trump protesters for months now. In recent weeks, radical feminists, anarchists,and other leftists disrupted the inaugural meeting of the “Students for Trump” group atPortland State University, resulting in the meeting being entirely shut down. During a recent rally in Portland, a self-professed transgender individualspit in the face of a Trump supporter and then shouted: “I’m a tranny. Go ahead, punch a woman!”

At Tulane University in New Orleans, the Kappa Alpha fraternity enraged minorities and social justice warriors by building a wall made with sandbags with the message of “Make America Great Again” written across it. The makeshiftwall, which was built on private property to surround the fraternity house, is constructed each year as part of a long-standing tradition ofthe fraternity. In a video posted on YouTube, a group of black anti-Trump protesters are showndismantling the wall, throwing the sandbags into the street.

Latino students and other leftists at Tulane defendedthe actions of the individuals who tore down the wall, arguing that the wall was “filledwith connotations of hate and ignorance.” Ana De Santiago, a member of Tulane’s GeneratingExcellence Now & Tomorrow in Education (GENTE) group, and other leftists took to social media to generate support for the individuals who tore down the wall.

“These connotations most directly mocked the experiences of Latino immigrants and workers throughout our nation,” Ms. Santiago wrote on Facebook. “By writing Trump in large, red letters across the ‘wall,’ KA [Kappa Alpha] changedwhat was a tradition of building a wall into a tradition of constructing a border, symbolizing separation and xenophobia. This issue not onlyaffects Latinos but all other marginalized immigrant groups in this country.”

Dillon Pérez, an associate of Ms. Santiago, stated: “We fully understand that KA has a right to freedom of speech, especially on their ownproperty, and GENTE respects that. However, KA’s right to free speech does not protect them from the consequences of their speech; KA’sright to free speech does not negate our right to freedom of speech to respond to their actions,make our sentiments clear, and find solidarity with others who see KA’s actions as being intolerableon Tulane’s campus.”

Trump supporters on college campuses across America continue to be targeted by the enforcers of political correctness. On a numberof college campuses recently, Trump supporters have used sidewalk chalk to write pro-Trumpmessages on campus, once again creating controversy for a simple expression of the First Amendment. Earlier this month, Hailey Puckett,a member of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s student government coalition,was asked to resign by her fellow coalition members after it was discovered she had participated in chalking pro-Trump messages on the school’s campus.

So much for free speech, at least when it comes to expressing support for Trump.

The Trump team certainly has its work cut out for itself as the primaries wrap up on June 7 and the GOP prepares for the Republican NationalConvention, where a candidate will be nominated to run in the 2016 general election.

Will GOP Make a Big Mistake on the Lake?

• Plan to betray Donald Trump in Cleveland could mean millions of Republican voters will defect from GOP

• Democrats have already ensured Hillary victory

By Patrick J. Buchanan —

In the race for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump would seem to be sitting in the catbird seat. He has won the moststates, the most delegates and the most votes—by over 2 million. He has brought out the largest crowds and is poised for huge wins in upcoming primaries.

Yet there is a growing probability that the backroom boys will steal the nomination from him at a brokered convention in Cleveland.

In early April, Colorado awarded all 34 delegatesto Senator Ted Cruz (Texas). The fix had been in since August, when party officials, alarmed atTrump’s popularity, decided it would be best if Colorado Republicans were not allowed to voteon the party’s nominee. After all, these poor folks might get it wrong.

In South Carolina, where Trump swept the primary,a plot is afoot for a mass desertion of Trump delegates after the first ballot. The RepublicanParty in Georgia, another state Trump won, is also talking up delegate defections. In state after state,when Trump wins and moves on, the apparatchiks arrive—to thieve delegates for Cruz.

“This is a crooked system, folks,” says Trump,“the system is rigged. . . . I go to Louisiana. I win Louisiana. . . . Then I find out I get less delegatesthan Cruz because of some nonsense. . . . I say this to the RNC. I say it to the Republican Party:You’re going to have a big problem, folks, because the people don’t like what’s going on.”

Something rotten is also going on in the Democratic race.

Senator Bernie Sanders (Vt.) was on a roll, havingwon seven straight primaries and caucuses. Yet he keeps falling further behind.

“I watch Bernie, he wins. He wins. He keepswinning, winning,” said Trump in Rochester. “And then I see, he’s got no chance. They alwayssay he’s got no chance. Why doesn’t he have a chance? Because the system is corrupt.”

Sanders seems to be shorted every time hewins a primary or caucus. And the insurmountable hurdle he faces was erected against folks like Sanders some time ago—the 700-plus superdelegates.

These are Democratic congressmen, senators, governors, and party officials. By more than 10-1, close to 500 of these superdelegates have lined up to back Hillary Clinton and stop Sanders.

The Democratic Party believes in democracy, up to a point—that point being that Democratic voters will not be permitted to nominate a candidate to whom the party elites object.

Richard Nixon’s 49-state triumph in 1972 cured the Democrats of their naive belief in democracy. The George McGoverns and Bernie Sanderses can run. But they won’t be allowed to win.

Yet, since it is Trump and Sanders who have stirred the greatest passion and brought out the biggest crowds, if both are seen as having beencheated by insiders, then the American political system may suffer a setback similar to that caused by the “corrupt bargain” of 1824.

Andrew Jackson ran first in the popular voteand the Electoral College, but was short of victory. John Quincy Adams, who ran second, gotSpeaker Henry Clay to deliver the House of Representatives, and thus make Adams president. Clay became Adams’s secretary of state.

In 1828, Jackson got his revenge, winning thepresidency. Clay would never make it. On his deathbed, Jackson confided that among the great regrets of his life was that he did not shoot Clay.

While the turnout in the Democratic primaries and caucuses has not matched the Obama-Clinton race of 2008, Sanders has rallied the youngand working class, turned out the biggest crowds, and generated the greatest enthusiasm.

But on the Republican side, the party has hadthe largest turnout in American history. And the reason is Trump.

And if, after having won the most votes anddelegates, Trump is seen as having been swindled out of a nomination he won, by intraparty schemingin Cleveland, the GOP could suffer a self-inflicted wound from which it might not recover.

Another matter that could prevent a return tonational unity? The deepening split over trade and foreign policy, both between the parties, and within the parties.

Sanders, recently, was saying that what disqualifies Mrs. Clinton as president is her support for free trade deals that gutted American industryand cost millions of jobs and her support for an Iraq War that was among the costliest, bloodiest blunders in U.S. history.

On both issues, Trump agrees with Sanders. Cruz, an uber-hawk and free trader, is more aligned with Mrs. Clinton.

If the “America first” stance on foreign andtrade policy, close to a majority position today, is unrepresented by either party this fall, and we geta free trade, pro-war president, the divisions within the country will widen and deepen.

If Sanders and his revolution are sent packingin Philadelphia, and Trump is robbed in Cleveland of a nomination Americans believe he won,political disillusionment, and political realignment, may be at hand.

1 Comment on Will GOP Elite Derail Trump Train, Make Big Mistake on the Lake?

With the growing numbers of illegal aliens arriving here everyday, and the Obama administration ignoring our immigration laws to stop the inflow, it stands to reason that Islamic terrorists are going to simply cross over, ready to cause even more death and destruction. There will be no skirting the truth the next time, as Obama and his failure to carry out every enforcement will be held accountable. Then even further Obama is allowing our nation to take in 100,000 Syrian refugees, which have likely been assimilated by unknown numbers of terrorists. With a very slender intelligence we have little knowledge of whether they are a real refugee or small cells of ISIS ready to take advantage open border policy, as that what is happening now. This President has given orders, to allow anybody who reaches America not to be held by the U.S. Border agents. For at least a year, immigration agents must release them, if they have no criminal record on file and no need to see an immigration judge.

Only politician I see as being sincere and not offering a bunch of lies is Donald Trump. The rest mainly Hillary Clinton who has pledged to carry on Obama’s agenda, and then Cruz and Kasich who will follow the demands of their lobbyists and special interests, who have paid for their campaigns.

Under Trumps authority the wall will be raised to stop the free flowing drugs, which are killing without any preference to gender, age, and a larger contingency of U.S. Border Patrol officers. Plus more internal agents of ICE to use digital tracking systems to not ONLY locate the millions of illegal aliens, but whoever comes through the open turnstile of the Obama and his minions, who find no sanctity in our sovereignty.

If Donald Trump loses by the rigged system instead of the popular vote, I cannot see myself and a whole bunch of friends even worth bothering to vote. Whether it’s Hillary Clinton with her murky past or a husband who cannot keep his hands off the ladies, nor the heavily wealthy benefactors to Cruz or Kasich, everything will just remain the same. The profiteers will buy their votes and the American people will be no better off, from either party as it stands.